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In short — Core i5-8500 outperforms the cheaper Pentium Gold G6400 on the selected game parameters. We do not have the prices of both CPUs to compare value. The better performing Core i5-8500 is 806 days older than the cheaper Pentium Gold G6400.
Advantages of Intel Core i5-8500
- Performs up to 5% better in DOOM Eternal than Pentium Gold G6400 - 487 vs 464 FPS
- Can execute more multi-threaded tasks simultaneously than Intel Pentium Gold G6400 - 6 vs 4 threads
Advantages of Intel Pentium Gold G6400
- Up to 47% cheaper than Core i5-8500 - $53.27 vs $99.63
- Consumes up to 11% less energy than Intel Core i5-8500 - 58 vs 65 Watts
DOOM Eternal
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1920 x 1080
Game Graphics
Nightmare
Intel® Core™ i5-8500 Desktop Processor 6 Core up to 4.1GHz Turbo LGA1151 300 Series 65W
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Intel PENTIUM Gold G6400 Processor 4.0GHZ 2NUCLEOS 4THREADS 4MB Cache Graphics UHD 610 LGA 1200 BX80701G6400
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TOP 5 Games
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1920 x 1080
Game Graphics
Nightmare
Core i5-8500
Desktop • Feb 14th, 2018
Pentium Gold G6400
Desktop • Apr 30th, 2020
Geekbench 5 Benchmarks
Pentium Gold G6400
Desktop • Apr 30th, 2020
Single-Core
805
58.038932948810384%
Multi-Core
1669
34.45499587118084%
Intel Core i5-8500 | vs | Intel Pentium Gold G6400 |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 14th, 2018 | Release Date | Apr 30th, 2020 |
| Core i5 | Collection | Pentium Gold |
| Coffee Lake | Codename | Comet Lake |
| Intel Socket 1151 | Socket | Intel Socket 1200 |
Desktop | Segment | Desktop |
6 | Cores | 2 |
6 | Threads | 4 |
| 3.0 GHz | Base Clock Speed | 4.0 GHz |
| 4.1 GHz | Turbo Clock Speed | Non-Turbo |
| 65 W | TDP | 58 W |
| 14 nm | Process Size | 14 nm |
| 30.0x | Multiplier | 40.0x |
| UHD Graphics 630 | Integrated Graphics | UHD Graphics 610 |
| No | Overclockable | No |
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